Only women face danger

I’ve allways found ludicrous the argument that “women have to fear walking alone at night”, with suggestions, or straight accusations, that men don’t have the same problem. Well that’s bullshit for several reasons:

Men are as scared as women on those situations. Like, seriously, this people really think that only women are scared when they walk alone in the dark? and when someone walks behind them? Even if we make a huge leap of faith and believe for a moment that patriarchy exists and men are super advantages, what the fuck that has to do with having fear on the face of the unknown, of the dark, and of someone chasing you? You think being a man makes you more secure if a bunch of drugs addicts decide to steal to you or something?. Bitch when i go alone in the night and someone walks behind me i assure you i can beat world records on speed walking. In fact i’m super aware when i’m walking behind someone, because i know they’ll be scared of me, and i don’t know if to walk slower so they get away, or walk faster to go past them quickly.

Statisticaly, men are FOUR times more likely to be murdered than women. Which means i literaly have four times more chances than you to be killed while walking alone in the night than women do.

What this means, is that there’s a difference in perception. Women believe they are in much more danger than they really are, and think men are far more safer than we really are. And why that would be? I supose it has nothing to do with an ideology that has been telling them they are opressed and in continuous danger for all of their lives, and that men are priviledged and have nothing to fear because they have all the advantages, even if every data says otherwise ;).

ROSALIND. Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

CELIA. I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire,
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
The like do you; so shall we pass along,
And never stir assailants.

ROSALIND. Were it not better,
Because that I am more than common tall,
That I did suit me all points like a man?
A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,
A boar spear in my hand; and- in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman’s fear there will-
We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As many other mannish cowards have
That do outface it with their semblances.

Shakespeare (a famous male author) admits that the manly (“mannish”) duty to confront involves a lot of bluffing. Since the above is archaic English and the readers are not all native speakers here are the necessary footnotes.

maid — girl
The like do you — And you do it like me
suit — dress or behave adaptively Used only in the impersonal “It suits the occasion” in modern English.
curtle axe, kirtle axe — I don’t know. I guess it’s a small battle axe like a tomahawk. I can’t find a picture or a description.
Lie there what hidden woman’s fear there will — Despite any woman’s fear that lies in my heart
Swash — the sound of a sword slashing through air, hence a stroke of a sword.
outface — face down, bluff
semblances — appearance